I am trying to encode a video with mencoder, using the tutorial here. Anyway, I got so far, but it quit with an error message:
So I google it, and find this page, which tells me to install lame or lame-devel. This is where the dependency problem happens. I install lame with:
but it gives me an error message:
and I think "Hey! I already have the latest libc6 installed." But just to check, I run:
and sure thing, the "latest" libc6 package is installed:
So, what is going on? I try to install lame, which requires libc6, but a newer version of libc6 is required than the one available to me - causing a dependency error. Is this some kind of bug? Should I compile libc6 from source?

Thanks, in advance for all the help given!

IMHO you don't want to mess with libc6, instead you want to mess with lame. You can build lame from source code from the sourceforge site:

http://lame.sourceforge.net/download.php

That's all I can think of. Also, I've never tried it, but you could download lame from this site... RareWares seems to have Debian style repositories:

http://www.rarewares.org/debian-info-allpackages.php

I hope this is helpfull.

EDIT: maybe that's where you already download your version of lame from. If so, my apologies.

Try using this in your /etc/apt/source.list to get the lame instead of the source you have in their for most likely testing.

Hmm... Now that you come to mention it, I think that this may be the site that the dependency issue comes from in the first place - it is in my /etc/apt/sources.list file, and lame won't come from anywhere else.

Thanks for the advice - this is what I have now done and lame works!

Thanks everyone for the help given - it is greatly appreciated !